UPDATED: Tractor trailer overturns on Poole roundabout (From Bournemouth Echo)
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UPDATED: Tractor trailer overturns on Poole roundabout
1:40pm Wednesday 9th January 2013 in News
Picture: Jon Beal
AN overturned trailer spewed tonnes of wood chippings on the pavement outside Poole's Dolphin Shopping Centre this morning.
Fortunately no-one was walking along the pavement at the time and there were no taxis waiting in the rank on the George Roundabout.
The trailer turned on its side, blocking the entrance to the taxi rank. The chipped conifers rained down on the pavement, their force buckling the railings.
Tractor driver Peter Cox was driving the eight tonne trailer from Parkstone Golf Course to Wimborne when the incident happened.
“I was coming round the roundabout and it just went,” he said. “Before I could do anything it was too late and it was gone.”
He added: “If the trailer hadn't come away from the tractor, it would have turned the tractor over as well.”
The tractor kept going, coming to a halt further round the roundabout.
Dolphin Centre staff were quickly on the scene with brooms to clear a path through for shoppers.
Eye-witness Philip Gray, 47, from Parkstone said he moved back when he saw it coming. “I could see it was going to tip over,” he said. “There was no-one in the way.”
Poole Daily Echo front office staff also heard the bang and saw the trailer slew across the road and come to a halt infront of them.
“I heard a noise,” said Pam Orchard. “All of a sudden I saw the container just literally drifting towards me, I could hear it falling. It banged onto the pavement and luckily there was nobody there. What a mess.”
Colleague Marie Stuart said: “I heard an almighty crash. I thought it was a car crash. It could have been a lot worse.”
Traffic was still flowing freely around the roundbout at lunchtime as a gang of men with spades started to clear up the spilt chippings although More Bus were reporting delays to all their services from Poole Bus Station.
Comments(23)
adamcooke
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11:32am Wed 9 Jan 13
speedy231278
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11:45am Wed 9 Jan 13
Melanie.Read12
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11:55am Wed 9 Jan 13
Holes Bay Curve
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12:24pm Wed 9 Jan 13
funkyferret
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1:52pm Wed 9 Jan 13
l'anglais
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2:01pm Wed 9 Jan 13
funkyferret wrote:It really isn't the time or the plaice
"Do you want chips with that..?"
suzigirl
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2:33pm Wed 9 Jan 13
John T
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3:17pm Wed 9 Jan 13
l'anglais wrote:Yeah, I have always thought the Dolphin Centre is a plaice with no sole.
funkyferret wrote:It really isn't the time or the plaice
"Do you want chips with that..?"
Pezza1040
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4:25pm Wed 9 Jan 13
If you could see it was going to tip over why didn't you inform the tractor driver of his unsteady trailer before this accident happened.
Either the echo has made you sound like an idiot, your psychic or you haven't chosen your words very well!!
lionheart
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4:51pm Wed 9 Jan 13
jemima36
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4:56pm Wed 9 Jan 13
How do you inform a tractor driver, he isnt going to be paying much attention to a pedestrian on the side of a roundabout behind a barrier and small trees?
John T
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4:57pm Wed 9 Jan 13
lionheart wrote:Mind you, the insurance company would have said it was a con if.. er they thought they could get out of paying any claim!
Any pedestrian in the way of that wood have had their chips!
paul.p
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12:41am Thu 10 Jan 13
uvox44
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9:27am Thu 10 Jan 13
yesbut
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1:25pm Thu 10 Jan 13
MMM444
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2:45pm Thu 10 Jan 13
jemima36 wrote:Well said jemima36, got to be the comment of the year that has, What a muppet
"If you could see it was going to tip over why didn't you inform the tractor driver of his unsteady trailer before this accident happened."
How do you inform a tractor driver, he isnt going to be paying much attention to a pedestrian on the side of a roundabout behind a barrier and small trees?
Dorset Logic
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3:08pm Thu 10 Jan 13
4:25pm Wed 9 Jan 13
If you could see it was going to tip over why didn't you inform the tractor driver of his unsteady trailer before this accident happened......
I agree - he should have run into the dolphin centre and got the security tapes of outside, then he should have gone to the civic centre police station and using the police software look at the tapes and check to see who the driver was. Once he'd done that, he could have, looked up the correct mobile number and told the driver that his trailer was tipping over and that he should get out and stop it from falling over. Mind you he would have had to have done it fairly quick.
Muppet x2
roamer100
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7:50pm Thu 10 Jan 13
Curly Jefferson
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9:18pm Thu 10 Jan 13
Dorset Logic wrote:Instead of doing that, it would be much more amusing to go and find a giant model of a hamster and place it onto the pile of chippings..
Pezza1040 says...
4:25pm Wed 9 Jan 13
If you could see it was going to tip over why didn't you inform the tractor driver of his unsteady trailer before this accident happened......
I agree - he should have run into the dolphin centre and got the security tapes of outside, then he should have gone to the civic centre police station and using the police software look at the tapes and check to see who the driver was. Once he'd done that, he could have, looked up the correct mobile number and told the driver that his trailer was tipping over and that he should get out and stop it from falling over. Mind you he would have had to have done it fairly quick.
Muppet x2
Dorset Logic
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11:18am Fri 11 Jan 13
uvox44
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8:26pm Fri 11 Jan 13
MMM444
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6:44am Sat 12 Jan 13
uvox44 wrote:Calm YOURSELF! down uvox4
hmm Dorset Logic you might need to get some therapy as you seem to be getting very worked up over someone elses concerns- personally it doesn't bother me that much what others get worked up about- LIGHTEN UP YOURESLF!
LIGHTEN UP
darkphnx says...
11:30am Wed 9 Jan 13